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- Watching – Tuesday Night at 9PM ET: The Only Way to Watch The State of The Union (The White House) http://t.co/u7uztqkcYs 18:12:07
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Probably about as good a Jupiter as I will be able to get with just the camera.* But hey, you can see the stripes!!! Produced by taking 30 individual pictures (1/125, f/6.5, ISO 80) and then aligning and “stacking” them to get more detail than any of the individual photos showed. (I used Lynkeos.) Then I adjusted the color a bit. The 30 pictures were taken from 06:46:00 UTC to 06:46:27 UTC tonight This is fun. I of course will have to try Saturn sometime soon…. once it is relatively high in the sky at an hour I tend to be awake, which looks like it won’t be until March or April. Also on the list to try… seeing if I can use Brandy’s telescope in conjunction with the camera to do anything interesting. Not sure it will work with this particular camera and that particular telescope, but worth a shot… Oh, and maybe some pictures of things that aren’t in the sky. :-) * Some internet searches of course reveal that people have done significantly better than the above using the same camera, but hey, it was my first night trying this technique!
More playing with the camera. That is Orion setting over our house. Stars are nice. Click the image for an enbiggened version. Also, while nowhere near as pretty as the others, I was impressed I could even get the shot below at all:
That’s Jupiter. And her moons Io, Europa, Callisto and Ganymede. I know, I know, just blobs of light. But still… This is a fun camera. :-) [Edit 8:59 UTC to put the list of Jupiter’s moons in the actual order they appear in the picture from left to right.]
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